Snaking on the Slow Carb Diet

4-Hour Diet Snacks

I have noticed a lot of questions about snacking on the Slow Carb Diet. Increasing the caloric intake of your meals is the first recommendation I would give to people whom find they crave snacks on a consistent basis. Feeling like you need a snack as the morning progresses? You likely need more calories in [...]

What Foods Can I Eat on a Slow Carb Diet?

Foods to Eat on the 4-Hour Body Diet

The Slow Carb Diet (aka the 4-Hour Body Diet) is based on some pretty simple food choices. It breaks down into the categories of meat/protein, vegetables, and beans/legumes (if you ignore the allowance for limited starches immediately after working out). To give you some idea of what options you have I will break some of [...]

What to Eat for Breakfast on the Slow Carb Diet

4-Hour Body Diet Breakfast

Let me start off by saying that I LOVE breakfast and want nothing more than to sit down to a full English-style breakfast and gorge myself in the morning. This unfortunately will send you to an early (and rather large) grave so it is something I knew I shouldn’t do even before starting the Slow [...]

The Five Simple Rules of the Slow Carb Diet

4 Hour Body Diet

The Slow Carb Diet, as revolutionized by Tim Ferriss in his book the The 4-Hour Body, is based on a simple set of five rules. The five rules are below: Rule #1: Avoid “White” Carbohydrates This is a huge rule and one you can’t cheat on (except on your cheat days, but more about that [...]